Scientific, Data-Based Assessment
Reading Recovery is a data-based and data-driven intervention based on the scientific understandings of reading and early literacy education. Outcomes are reported for all children served, and data are collected about Reading Recovery teachers and schools. Using a web-based data entry system, OSU’s International Data Evaluation Center (IDEC) provides a wealth of student, teacher, and school data for a site to use in evaluating their efforts. IDEC works diligently to provide up-to-date methodology for evaluating Reading Recovery. Check the IDEC website annually for current procedures and information.
Procedures for data collection and recording are standardized nationally and required for every school district implementing Reading Recovery in the United States. Data also are collected on a random sample of grade-level peers from all schools implementing Reading Recovery. This random sample provides a national comparison group, in accordance with the principles of scientifically based research.
THE JOURNAL OF READING RECOVERY
Spring 2023
The Science of Reading Era: Seeking the “Science” in Yet Another Anti-Teacher Movement by Paul Thomas
Understanding Marie Clay’s Perspective on Phonics by Mary Anne Doyle
Selection of Children for Reading Recovery: Challenges and Responses by Mary K. Lose and Eva Konstantellou
Let’s Talk About It: The Composing Conversation by Jamie Lipp
A Report of National Outcomes for Reading Recovery and Descubriendo la Lectura by Susan Mauck, Kate Nelson and Lisa Pinkerton